The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi by Scaglione, Aldo

The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820421346)

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The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi by Scaglione, Aldo

The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi

$56.95
The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi by Scaglione, Aldo

The Mobile Spectacle: Variable Perspective in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi

$56.95
Format: Hardcover
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The Mobile Spectacle treats Manzoni's use of variable perspective in I Promessi Sposi, the relationship between his technique and that of other European Romantic writers and his contribution to the Italian literary language. This study shows how Manzoni consistently represents what the eye sees (landscape, cityscape) and the mind conceives (characters' plans, history) under different and often paradoxical aspects. Its thesis is that the technique of variable perspective has a cognitive function, allowing the novel to speak in a timeless manner of reason and folly, goodness and wickedness, human reason and divine grace.

Author: Aldo Scaglione,Clareece Godt
ISBN-10: 0820421340
ISBN-13: 9780820421346
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 167
Format: Hardcover
By Aldo Scaglione
By Aldo Scaglione
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The Author: Clareece G. Godt received her Ph.D. in Italian literature from The Johns Hopkins University after an earlier career in the sciences. She has published articles on Italo Svevo and Alessandro Manzoni, and since 1981, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh.

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